The Ethics Of The Nursing Profession

Knowledge is the driving force for change. As communities grow and expand, so do the issues and challenges facing healthcare. These issues influence the direction of nursing research which provides the scientific basis for our practice and provides answers to the demands for increasing efficiency in quality care, increased need for higher education and development in all areas of the nursing profession.

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This paper will be exploring the impact of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health released on October 05, 2010. In 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the IOM launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. The IOM appointed a committee with the purpose of, “producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.” This paper will explore the impact of this report on nursing education, nursing practice, and the

This source is a book written by two professors making it a trustworthy source. It was published this year (2017), making it timely. The authors of the article did a wonderful job of being descriptive and concise with their research. I like how personal each story was for each nurse giving me as the reader and research a personal

In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) generated a report making recommendations that outline progressive planning for the future of nursing.  The Institute has responded to barriers and offers solutions to the rapidly changing healthcare model in light of the affordable care act (The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health, 2011). This paper will consider the impact of the IOM on nursing education, nursing practice and the nurse’s role as a leader.  It will examine, what I believe to be positive

In this paper I will discuss the goals of the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) published report and its impact on nursing education, nursing practice specifically in primary care and the impact on the nurse as a role of leadership. In my conclusion, I will provide on a personal level what modifications I will make in my nursing practice to meet the IOM report goals. Within the paper I will explore how the impact of the 2010 IOM published report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” has on the three topic points stated above. The IOM published report was set forth by the IOM’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing committee group whose purpose is

Have you ever sat and thought about how nurses can give good ethical quality of care when they seem to always be understaffed and overcrowded? In this Research paper, I will look at what the effects of understaffing is on nurses and patients. Per the CUPE website their research show that one in ten patients in Canada acquire a nosocomial infection during their visits to the hospital. This seems to be a very alarming rate. Their research has also come to show that thirty percent of these infections are preventable, and that understaffing is one of the major attributors to this growing problem.

Throughout history , nursing has existed for a long time and is continuously changing through time. It is one of the more important occupation worldwide and has a wide range of occupational duties. In modern times, nursing is known as one of the largest health professions with more than 3 million nurses from registered nurses to nurse practitioners nationwide. It is a profession that focuses on the care of individuals as well as families to help maintain and recover optimal health and quality of life. In the career field, nursing has a significant outlook in the future years as its growth is expected to increase tremendously. Without nurses, people around the world wouldn’t get the proper care they would desperately need if they were injured,

Advances in technology, computer systems and internet enabled nursing professionals to access medical and nursing databases and health information for practice, education and research. The quantity of information available is so extensive that it is almost impossible to keep abreast of them. There are several kinds of articles available in computer databases, scholarly journals and published from various government and private organizations. Each of them serves different purposes and intended for a variety of audiences, from scholars to general population. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast a scholarly article with an internet resource, on a health topic relevant to

Although the nursing profession is based on caring for patients, there are scenarios that arise that test the nurse’s ability to make decisions that are beneficial for the patients. There can be situations that are simple and the decision is clear. However, there are scenarios that many nurses encounter that challenge their personal, professional, ethical values and principles along with addressing laws. It becomes a mental battle to decide which value and principle is the best option to base their decision for an optimal outcome. The scenario that creates an ethical dilemma is a patient named John who was admitted to the unit. He is a person with schizophrenia who has had many relapses, but they are starting to become less frequent. When he goes into a relapse he becomes paranoid and refuses to see his parents. He has written an advance directive that defines which medications he wishes to receive during his relapse, while also wanting his parents to be notified. There is a new physician on the unit that is refusing to use the medication that John has requested. She has also said that anyone who notifies his parents will have a complaint filed against them since it violates the patient’s rights to contact the parents.

Looking back over 150 years ago, the nursing profession has changed drastically. Even just the uniform of nurses changed from the white dresses with panty hose and a white cap to scrubs with pants. Here are a few other examples of change in the profession: “there was a time in the past when only physicians took blood pressures, performed phlebotomy and administered blood; and not so long ago, only RNs – not LPNs – were allowed to administer IV medications” (Daley, 2013, p.4433). With our ever changing health care industry, including the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the nursing profession needs to continue to improve their

Ethical dilemmas commonly faced in the nursing profession arises when nurses are at crossroads between moral ideologies and competing demands of miscellaneous parties; this includes “the client’s desires, the physician’s orders, the family’s demands, the bureaucracy of the hospital, the law, as well as the nurse’s physical and emotional limitations” (Chambliss, 1996, p. 93). One common ethical issue encountered by nurses’ today is the interjection of advance directives to his/her innate duty to care. Specifically, this paper presents a case vignette about a Jehovah’s Witness, who is refusing a necessary blood transfusion due to religious beliefs. After analysing the ethical dilemma, I strongly believe that the client’s autonomical decision

Methods used and search to obtain credible information were from college online library and a personal outdated home library that serves as a guide for a potential new printed online version. Database searches were CINAHl, advanced search in CINAHL, Google Scholar, and words searched: philosophy, nursing, philosophy of nursing, nursing philosophy, nursing relevance, nursing importance, nursing purpose, metaparagim, and nursing practice.

The ethical dilemma is a situation by which it’s difficult to determine whether a situation is can be handled without disappointing both sides. Therefore, an ethical dilemma exists when the right thing to do is clear or when members of the healthcare team cannot agree on the right thing to do. Ethical dilemmas require negotiation of different points of view (potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall 2011pg 78).

As the popularity of the internet has increased, people rely on internet information. Searching for an information can bring many information, but all of these information’s are not always credible. In order to apply best evidence based practices in nursing, finding reliable information is equally important. Such information’s can be found by searching a peer-reviewed articles in a library database such as the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Library and MEDLINE. My current work place provides an access to their library and I access this library for information. I like PubMed articles, which provide an immense information on health care topics.